Mike Powers

Using the excuse that Bruce's views of the world are not relevant because he is now a millionaire is nonsense, and flies in the face of everything a right-winger stands for in the first place. If you feel America is still a place where someone can rise professionally & financially (and I do) but once you get there you've given up your right to re-examine the system is the most anti-American stance one can take.

OWS is about re-examination of that system and why so many feel it may be broken, or at least unbalanced, because fewer and fewer are being given the chance to even enter that system, much less make their way through it.

I agree that OWS is truly an unstructured attempt at change, but the one take-away we have from it are discussions like these. Raising awareness, as OWS did, is the first step - what the next steps are remain undefined. But I think everyone agrees are elected officials on both sides of the fence have failed us and it's time for a change in the process.

Note: I've been a Bruce fan since his first album so I am a bit biased in my opinion when I say Bruce and OWS aren't far off from each other, but I do believe the issues Bruce has always sung about have become much more complex then his generation (and mine) faced when they were starting out.